It's not a pushrod problem. The pushrods don't get the oil to the top. The FE engines have an oil passageway in the head, that fills one rocker shaft support with oil and it comes out the shaft itself. It's not like a small block where the oil is transferred by the pushrod.

 

I get that FE's don't get oiled through the pushrods... However the first time the engine was built my builder used the incorrect pushrods.. Ones that oil through. After the engine failure these were replaced with the correct pushrods.

 

You are missing the point I think. Whether he used pushrods with holes in them or not has NOTHING to do with the oiling problem. The oil will not go to the pushrods just because they have an oil hole in them. The oil passageway in the head needs to be restricted to have good oil flow through the engine. It has nothing to do with the pushrods, what he used, nothing. It's a separate thing that I'm afraid you don't fully understand and perhaps, even worse, maybe your builder doesn't understand.